Hari Gopal
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolHari Gopal is a seasoned software leader with 14+ years of hands-on engineering experience and a decade as a technology lead, most recently serving as CTO of Pupilfirst where he led development of an open-source RoR + ReScript LMS used to deliver scalable, asynchronous education across India. He is a full-stack practitioner fluent in Ruby, JavaScript, Python, Java, PHP and ReScript, equally comfortable refactoring front-ends and stabilizing back-end compatibility layers. Hari combines product-focused engineering with people leadership, having built and mentored teams to ship a responsive, usability-focused learning platform that emphasized iterative feedback and learner outcomes. His open-source contributions span both UX improvements and deep ActiveRecord compatibility fixes, showing attention to long-term maintainability as well as feature delivery. Now exploring new opportunities, he’s eager to apply his technical depth and operational experience to build impactful products or help teams scale engineering practices. Based in Bengaluru, he brings a pragmatic engineering mindset shaped by building production systems from mobile stacks to large web applications.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B. Tech, Computer Science, B. Tech, Computer Science at Sree Chitra Thirunal College of Engineering
English, Malayalam, Hindi
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Github Skills (19)
databases10
ruby10
front-end-development10
activerecord10
rescript10
react10
database10
testing9
spec9
refactor9
refactoring9
oauth8
reason6
chef-infra6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
pupilfirst/pupilfirst
Mar 2014 - Jan 2023
A learning management system (LMS) that lets you run an asynchronous online school, where learning is achieved through focused tasks, directed feedback, an iterative workflow, and community interaction.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 546 reviews, 6183 commits in 8 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Hari's commits primarily focused on fixing warnings and removing ReasonReact components while refactoring the front-end codebase. They modified several ReScript components, including those related to course selection, student panels, and the target editor. Their work involved updating React components and adding features to the curriculum editor.
online-schooliterativemhealthrescriptreactjs
songkick/oauth2-provider
Jul 2013 - Jul 2013
Simple OAuth 2.0 provider toolkit
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Hari primarily focused on updating the code to be compatible with newer versions of ActiveRecord. This involved addressing deprecation warnings and ensuring compatibility with Ruby 1.8.7. The contributions included changes to the authorization and client models, as well as adding a helpers module to facilitate database operations. These changes demonstrate an understanding of the project's dependence on ActiveRecord and the need for version compatibility.
provideroauth-2oauth2oauthoauth2-client
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